To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski
Publisher: Vintage

I would recommend reading “Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design” and “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petronius, an accomplished author and civil engineer. In addition to The Essential Engineer, published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he is also a prolific author. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. To Engineer is Human - Henry Petroski. Henry Petroski is a professor of civil engineering and history at Duke University. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski. A really good book that changed my view on the subject was “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petroski. Perhaps one of my favorite non-fiction books, Henry Petroski looks at a very different aspect of engineering that has not really been touched on before; the role of failure in design. His first book, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, appeared in 1985. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski (Vintage, 1992) Petroski writes more (and better) 'n most writers. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. €�As Henry Petroski writes in To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, we learn more from our failures than our successes.